Cookies On This Website

Our Use Of Cookies

Our website is operated by Flywalk Ltd trading as Skates.co.uk. The website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and this helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also to improve our website.

Cookies help us to provide you with a better customer experience when you browse our website and allow us to improve and tailor the website for you. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on the website. We use the information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our website to improve website functionality and to ensure we can process and fulfil your orders.

If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our website or stop our website placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time, learn how to do this below, in the Manging cookies section.

By visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to allow cookies or you are consenting to the use of non-essential cookies and acknowledging our use of essential cookies for the purposes outlined below in order to provide you with a fully functional, tailored shopping experience.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded and stored on your computer or mobile device by website that you visit. Where cookie technology is not available, an anonymous identifier may be used. An anonymous identifier is a random string of characters used for the same purposes as a cookie.

Your browser accesses the cookie file only when you visit the website that generated it. This helps to ease your navigation by automatically logging you in and remembering things like your preferences and what’s in your shopping basket. Cookies allow website like ours to deliver you a personalised shopping experience.

The information stored within any given cookie can only be accessed by the websites that created it and cookies are limited to communicating only the information that you have disclosed to the site.

Managing cookies: Enabling and Disabling

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

If cookies aren't enabled on your computer, it will mean that your shopping experience on our website will be limited to browsing and researching; you won't be able to add products to your basket or buy them. To enable and manage cookies, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

We use the following types of cookie

Essential cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make purchases. We do not require your consent to place these cookies. Nevertheless, you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/ browser, but restricting these cookies is likely to mean that our website will not work as you would expect and certain functionality may be inoperable.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, how they reached our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the websites, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

Non-essential cookies

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Performance Cookies. These cookies allow us to improve the functionality and experience of our site, these include third party cookies which collect information to help better tailor our advertising to your interests, preferences and past activity
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information will be used by us and third parties to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose but only if you consent to such sharing.
Social media cookies. Social sharing, social login and other social media services we offer are run by other companies. These companies may drop cookies on your computer when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them.

Cookie/tracking technology name	Category	Purpose
Facebook, Google and Bing	Targeting	These partners use cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. Banner advertising appears on websites which we are affiliated with and we use the information we have learned from cookies to tailor this advertising to things we think you will like, based on your browsing history on our website.
Google and Bing	Performance	Sometimes we'll advertise on third party websites. Each individual advertiser uses its own tracking cookies and the data taken is not confidential or interchangeable.
Google Analytics	Analytics	Google Analytics uses these cookies to discover when you first visited our site, how often you come back and how long you spend shopping. The information stored by these cookies can be seen only by the relevant teams and Google and never shows any confidential information, we also use Google Analytics to track the performance of our website.
Google and Youtube	Social Media	Social sharing, social login and other social media services we offer are run by other companies. These companies may drop cookies on your computer when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them.
private_content_version section_data_ids mage-messages mage-cache-storage mage-cache-sessid mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation form_key __zlcmid PHPSESSID X-Magento-Vary	Strictly Necessary	These cookies are used to allow you to add to your basket and place orders and allow us to recognise registered customers. Allow customers to easily communicate with the shop for their needs, as live chat is now generally considered the preferred method of communicating over phone calls/emails.
product_data_storage recently_compared_product_previous recently_compared_product recently_viewed_product recently_viewed_product_previous	Functionality	These cookies are used to remember your selected preferences and what messages you have already seen so they aren’t shown again.
__cfduid	Strictly Necessary	Used to protect our website against bots.